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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly refused Pentagon demands this week to strip the company’s AI safeguards, declaring that threats from the Defense Department would not change his position. At the center of the dispute sits a $200 million contract between Anthropic and the Pentagon. The Pentagon wants Anthropic to lift its restrictions so the military can use Claude for “all lawful use” with no limits. However, Anthropic holds firm on two concerns it refuses to drop: AI-controlled weapons and mass domestic surveillance of American citizens. Pentagon Issues a Friday Deadline On February 24, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Amodei a…
Stacks, a London-based enterprise software company, has raised $23 million in Series A funding to build an agentic AI platform that automates finance operations for large businesses. Lightspeed led the round, with General Catalyst, EQT Ventures, and S16VC also participating. The raise comes less than a year after the company closed a $12 million seed round, signaling strong and consistent momentum. Founded by people with backgrounds at Uber and Plaid, Stacks builds automation tools for enterprise finance teams. Today, most of these teams spend the bulk of their time moving data between ERPs, spreadsheets, and accounting platforms rather than making…
Last week, Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude, was involved in a very public dispute with the U.S Pentagon for refusing to remove the AI’s safety guardrails to give the U.S military unrestricted access to use Claude to carry out large-scale domestic surveillance and create fully autonomous weapon systems. As a result, President Trump tagged the company “left-wing lunatics” and subsequently ordered all federal agencies to boycott Claude. The defence department also labelled Claude a national risk and millions of users got locked out. When Claude Went Dark On the 2nd of March 2026, millions of users tried to…
Bridgewater associates is flagging big tech’s AI spending boom. The firm published a client note in late January 2026 warning that the scale and pace of AI investment has reached a point where it could reshape how the global economy functions. In addition, Bridgewater co-chief investment officer Greg Jensen said the artificial intelligence boom has entered a “more dangerous phase,” marked by exponentially rising investments in physical infrastructure and growing reliance on outside capital. “Compute demand continues to significantly outpace supply, driving hyperscalers to invest even more rapidly to try to someday get ahead of the demand.” Big Tech’s $650…
Nvidia is now in control of roughly 80% of the AI data center chip market and that dominance is forcing the world’s largest cloud providers to go back to the drawing board. In 2026, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are collectively planning to spend $660-690 billion on AI infrastructure and Nvidia is at the center of this budget. The company’s grip on AI silicon gives it a huge advantage over how hyperscalers allocate capital, architect platforms, and plan their next moves. As demand for AI workloads keeps surging, the ripple effects are reshaping cloud strategy across the board. How…
The AI arms race just got a lot more competitive and software developers are at the center of it. In 2026, Google DeepMind and OpenAI are locked in a fierce battle to build the most powerful coding AI tools, each releasing increasingly capable models at a pace that is hard to ignore. For developers, this rivalry is reshaping how code is written, debugged, and deployed. Furthermore, this is not just a performance race. It is a strategic land grab for developer loyalty, enterprise contracts, and the future of software engineering itself. How Google Deepmind and OpenAI are Targeting Developers Moreover,…
Google has always shaped the future of digital advertising and what the company is doing right now goes beyond its usual updates. It is building an entirely new advertising infrastructure where AI does all the work. AI tools will be used to generate the audio, write the content, place the ads and target the audience with just a prompt. For years, digital advertising was traditional with brands buying placements so users can see which will then in turn generate revenue. All that has changed with this new development. Artificial intelligence is now the engine driving how ads are made, placed…
Hyperscalers like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and other cloud service providers are building private energy systems to power their AI data centers because the increasing electricity demand is greater than what public grids can handle. Consequently, this marks a major shift in how the world’s biggest tech companies use energy by shifting from passive users to investing billions in building infrastructure for power generation. The Grid Can’t Keep Up With AI’s Hunger Global data center electricity demand is forecast to reach 1,000 terawatt-hours by 2026, more than double 2022 levels, according to the IEA. On top of that, U.S. data centers…
On February 18 2026, OpenAI and Crypto investment firm Paradigm launched a jointly launched EVMbench, an open-source benchmark that tests how well AI agents can detect, patch and exploit vulnerabilities in Ethereum-based smart contracts. The timing couldn’t be more perfect because smart contracts currently secure over $100 billion in open-source crypto assets. What is EVMbench and How Does it Test Smart Contract Security EVMbench draws on 120 curated vulnerabilities across 40 professional audits, most pulled from Code4rena, a platform where security researchers race to find bugs in live codebases. Until now, no standardized tool existed to measure AI performance in…
OpenAI has acquired Openclaw, an open-source AI agent framework that gained widespread popularity among developers. The CEO Sam Altman took to X (formerly Twitter) on the 15th of February to confirm the acquisition. The company announced that it has brought on Openclaw’s creator, Peter Steinberger “to drive the next generation of personal agents”. This move is the clearest signal yet that OpenAI is moving from AI chatbot systems towards autonomous AI agents. From Side Project to Silicon Valley Acquisition Openclaw has had its fair share of name changes. It started out as ClawdBot, then MoltBot, before settling on its current…